Bob Gailer wrote: > At 12:41 PM 5/10/2005, Andre Roberge wrote: > >> On 5/10/05, Bob Gailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > At 08:48 PM 5/9/2005, André Roberge wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> >> > On http://rur-ple.sourceforge.net/en/errors.htm Reeborg >> > appears as Egrebor. I assume that's incorrect. >> > >> > >> You are indeed correct. Thank you for pointing this out. >> >> Just for a historical note: rur-ple is inspired by GvR which stands >> for "Guido van Robot". I can not think of a better name for it (kudos >> to Steve Howell). > > > Any allusion to - RUR Rossums Universal Robots by Karel Capek 1920 >
Actually, yes. I just forgot to mention it. In the play by Capek, Rossum is a mad scientist, unlike Guido (right?). [Aside: I can swear I saw (but can't find it after googling for 30 minutes) that the original play in Czech was known by its acronym RUR where the "U" did not stand for "universal". However, the English translation, which everyone seems to remember, retained the RUR acronym.] So, the "RUR" was also inspired from the original play by Capek. And I made sure I could use the same acronym in both English and French in RUR-PLE (English; in French it would be RUR: EAP :-) (le Robot Usagé de Roberge) ( Roberge's Used Robot ) >> [snip] > > Bob Gailer > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 510 558 3275 home > 720 938 2625 cell > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
